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esailor
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Initially Posted - 04/17/2007 :  21:57:57  Show Profile
If I attach a block on my spreader for hoisting the American flag do I put it on the port side?

How have you guys attached small bullet blocks up there?
Pete Hagar
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Champipple
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Response Posted - 04/17/2007 :  22:21:07  Show Profile  Visit Champipple's Homepage
Pete - The American Flag or US yacht ensign should be flown from stern. Either on a pole or about 2/3rds of the way up the aft stay.

I attached a small bullet block from the spreader with a cable tie which I then wrapped with one wrap of wriggin tape.
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Response Posted - 04/17/2007 :  22:30:55  Show Profile
What do you fly from the spreader then? I thought no flags higher than the American flag.

Just some minor things I'm trying to wrap up before splash day next week end.
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Response Posted - 04/17/2007 :  22:37:12  Show Profile  Visit Champipple's Homepage
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by esailor</i>
<br />What do you fly from the spreader then? I thought no flags higher than the American flag.

Just some minor things I'm trying to wrap up before splash day next week end.
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Courtesy flags when you clear customs in a particular country, club burgees, quarantine flags, skipper onboard flags etc. all can go from the starboard spreader.

The locations for US flags in nautical instances arise out of visibility in most instances. While under sail, the flag would not be able to be seen underneath the sails. Another instance where the flag isn't above everything would be the Gaff Rig - also seen as the flag pole in many yacht clubs. The USPS has a good listing of all of the flag ettiquette here.
http://www.usps.org/f_stuff/etiquett.html#updated-code
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Response Posted - 04/17/2007 :  22:41:35  Show Profile
I once had a burgee hanging from the spreader and when I was on certain points of sail, the burgee would slap the mains'l about once a second. After about twenty minutes of fwap...fwap...fwap...fwap, I took it down.
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Response Posted - 04/17/2007 :  22:43:39  Show Profile
That's great thanks for the link Duane.
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